For the last week there have been fiber techs on our street doing something in the area1, including late last night, when our internet went out. We expected to wake to it working again but it's still out and we can't get it serviced until tomorrow. I'm helpless and consequently pissed. My node is offline and my value plan cellular service on my 6 year old phone sucks so I'm in the office on my "day off."
I immediately thought of getting Starlink as a backup but they aren't available yet at my address. My only other options afaik are getting a second wired internet provider or a cellular hotspot. I'm tempted to go with the cellular hotspot as it's less likely to share outages, but I'm not very confident in cell service in my area (it hasn't gentrified as fast as the homes have seemingly).
Do you have backup internet? Cell or wired? Are there other options I haven't considered?
Footnotes
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When I came home last week there was a tech in our backyard. No phone call. No warning. Just a dude in a safety colored vest in my backyard. He said he was from the internet company which I called to confirm. But wtf. Dude is going to get himself hurt. ↩
if Austin is not covered by their satellites maybe useless anyway, maybe better double check somehow